Food & Water
The two things a household runs out of first. Long-term food storage, rotating pantries, freeze-dried, canning and mylar — plus water filtration, storage, sourcing and treatment. The ground truth on what actually feeds and hydrates a household when the supply chain stalls. Plain reviews and honest taste tests, no panic.
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This Growing Season Has Been Brutal... Here's What Survived
27-minute walkthrough of a coastal garden's performance through extreme weather—cold snaps, heat waves, drought, heavy rain—with harvest updates, crop failures, and practical lessons for the rest of the season.
8 Reasons Your Canning Jars Didn't Seal
Learn the most common causes of canning seal failure and how to troubleshoot, prevent, and safely handle unsealed jars.
Mason Jars: The Ultimate Prepping Tool No One Talks About
Explore practical applications of mason jars for food storage, water treatment, fermentation, and herbal medicine in a self-reliant home.
Catch, Clean and Cook with Only Pocket Primal Kit
Ten-minute walkthrough of using a pocket-sized multi-tool fire kit to catch, prepare, and cook a fish using only natural resources and the kit's components.
Water Filter Hack: Sawyer Mini with Jerry Can Gravity Filtration
Short tip on adapting a Sawyer Mini filter to a standard jerry can for gravity-fed water filtration in camp or vehicle settings.
8 Food Items That Will Skyrocket in Price in 2026
Identify eight food categories likely to see significant price increases over the next year and plan storage accordingly.
Extra Chickens: Define Your Market
Planning before buying: how to assess whether chickens feed your family or generate income, and why most first-time homesteaders skip this critical step.
28 Foods Containing Plastic: Microplastics in Everyday Groceries
21-minute walkthrough of foods where researchers have found microplastic contamination, which foods have highest levels, and practical steps to reduce family exposure.
Massive Drill Rig Arrives—Securing Water & Power for Our Homestead
Norwegian couple documents drilling a new well, installing a frost-free hydrant, planting potatoes using no-dig methods, and building layered backup systems (old well, wood heat, future solar) while grid-connected.
Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pasture: Coop Spacing and Rotational Grazing
42-minute walkthrough on calculating proper chicken coop spacing for stationary and free-range setups to avoid overgrazing and keep birds healthy.
June Garden Check In: Spring Maintenance for Thriving Harvests
Garden maintenance walkthrough covering soil health monitoring, water and nutrient assessment, and early-stage crop management to prevent losses.
7 Prepper Pantry Mistakes Destroying Your Survival Plan
Fifteen-minute walkthrough of seven common long-term food storage errors—oxygen exposure, pests, temperature, nutrition gaps—with fixes for each.
Don't Rush Into Farm Animals: Five Things to Know First
Planning checklist before buying livestock: fencing, shelter, feed, space, budget, and animal selection to avoid costly beginner mistakes.
Complete Seed Saving Guide for Every Gardener
Twelve-minute walkthrough of seed saving techniques: choosing open-pollinated varieties, harvesting at peak maturity, dry and wet processing, storage for viability, and building an emergency seed bank.
The Secrets of Good Soil, Myth 1
Why you don't need perfect soil to start gardening—how composting kitchen scraps, mulching, and returning organic matter build productive soil over time.
A Homesteader's Seat at the Secretary of Agriculture's Table | Interview with AJ Richards
54-minute interview with a Wyoming homesteader invited to advise the Secretary of Agriculture on public-land grazing, regenerative agriculture policy, and direct-farm meat sales.
What Morning Chores Really Look Like on a Homestead
Real-time walkthrough of daily pasture rotation chores and their benefits for livestock, soil health, and grazing efficiency.
Wild Edible Series - Blackjack
53-second identification and foraging guide to blackjack, a wild edible plant for food self-sufficiency.
Outdoor Cooking Trick
Stefan demonstrates a practical technique for cooking outdoors, showcasing improvised methods for field food preparation.
Growing My Own Groceries: July Garden Tour | Zone 4A Minnesota
54-minute garden walkthrough showing vegetable production, preservation methods, and seasonal growing challenges in a cold climate with the goal of producing a year's food supply.
Wild Edible Series - Shepherd's Purse
37-second identification and basic information about shepherd's purse, a common wild edible plant for foraging and food security.
A Little Self-Reliance: Muscadine Grapes
Seven-second look at an 80-foot muscadine grape trellis established 10 years ago with minimal gardening experience required.
How to Freeze a Year's Worth of Broccoli
Step-by-step guide to freezing broccoli for long-term storage, with guidelines on blanching, freezer duration (3 months to 12 months), and inventory management.
Broccoli Sprouts: The Ultimate Super Nutrient Concentration
Learn how to grow nutrient-dense broccoli sprouts at home for storage and nutrition security.
Editor's note
“If you only have a weekend and $200, fix water before anything else — it's the prep with the highest ratio of survival impact per dollar. On food: most $400 emergency kits could be replaced with $120 of supermarket staples plus mylar bags. The expensive part of food prep is the marketing, not the calories.”
— Cockroach editorial
Easy Preserved Lemons, Limes & Oranges: 2-Ingredient Fermented Citrus
22-minute walkthrough of salt-fermented citrus preservation: selecting fruit, packing jars, fermentation timeline, storage, and four recipes using preserved citrus.
Unlock Garlic's Power: Boost Immunity with Raw Allicin
Learn how to prepare and consume raw garlic to harness allicin's immune-boosting properties for health resilience.
Why Chickens Refuse To Sleep On The Floor
Why chickens need elevated roosts in a coop, and two functional designs (galvanized poles and cut branches) that meet the birds' instinctive safety needs.
Ghee: From Skin Savior to Gut Healer — Amazing Uses
Learn multiple practical applications of ghee for health and homestead use, from topical skin care to digestive support.
Three Underrated C's: Crappie, Cornbread & Coffee | The Perfect Catch and Cook
Fourteen-minute catch-and-cook walkthrough: fishing for crappie, field dressing and frying fresh fish, baking cornbread in camp, and brewing coffee outdoors.
Every Egg Has Potential: Identifying Fertile Eggs and Hatching Chickens
How to identify fertile eggs from a mixed flock and choose between broody-hen or incubator hatching to grow your chicken population.
Is THIS the Store Where You Can Find ALL of Your Prepping Gear on a Budget?
28-minute walkthrough of Aldi's emergency food storage options: grains, beans, canned proteins, shelf-stable meals, and what to look for when building a frugal prepper pantry.
Inside a Mobile Chicken Coop
Tour of a slatted-floor mobile chicken coop design: how daily rotation stacks eggs, pest control, and pasture fertilization into one system.
Do Less, Preserve More
Learn which harvested foods deserve preservation effort and which to use fresh, saving time and resources.
The Deadfall Trap: Design and Construction
Twenty-two minutes on building and tuning a deadfall trap for small game and larger animals, with scalability principles for different prey sizes.
Pan Fishing Tips & Retro Gear: Why the Zebco 202 Still Catches Fish
Practical panfishing techniques and tips for catching bluegill and crappie using the classic Zebco 202 reel—low-cost, reliable gear for food self-sufficiency.
How I Preserve a Year's Worth of Food Without Burnout
Rethink pantry strategy: prioritize foods that preserve well, use fermentation and root cellaring, and skip what's cheaper to buy preserved.
3 Gravity Water Filters Explained and Compared — Which Is Best?
Side-by-side comparison of Berkey, Berkefeld, and Membrane Solutions gravity filters: pricing, filtration capacity, features, and value for preppers.
How To Never Go Hungry When Lost In The Wilderness
Three-minute walkthrough on setting and positioning small-game survival snares for wilderness food procurement.
Preparing Ewes for Lambing Season: Scanning, Fencing, and Pasture Management
Walk through pre-lambing preparation on a working farm: electronic ID scanning, building grazing paddocks, pre-lambing nutrition, and moving ewes to fresh pasture.
Turning Ruined Peaches into a Sweet Treat
Converting damaged or overripe peaches into preserved sweets: practical food preservation technique for homestead surplus.
Brooder Basics Every Chick Owner Should Know
50-minute walkthrough of the 28-day hatching cycle: managing an incubator, brooding chicks after hatch, and initial care setup for a backyard flock.
10 Dirt-Cheap Household Items Every Prepper Needs
Practical household supplies that serve double duty in emergencies, with a focus on safe water disinfection methods.
7 Immune Boosting Foods She Swears By For Years
Learn seven nutrient-dense foods that support immune function as part of a homestead diet.
Garden Pests Don't Stand a Chance Against This
31-second demonstration of using diatomaceous earth as an organic barrier against garden pests on eggplants, without synthetic chemicals.
Adding Seed Saving and Soil Blocking to Your Food Security System
Seed saving and soil blocking techniques to build a self-renewing food garden that reduces dependence on purchased seedlings and annual seed purchases.
Boost Your Gut Health: The Power of Fermented Foods
Learn fermentation techniques for preserving food and supporting digestive health using simple equipment and salt.
Deeper Sonar Initial Review and Testing | First Look from a Canoe
Eleven-minute hands-on test of a portable sonar fish finder from a canoe, covering setup, app connectivity, accuracy, and practicality for ultralight fishing.
Daily Life - War Time Russia | And How To Get Rid of Giant Hogweed
Learn practical methods for identifying and safely removing giant hogweed, a hazardous invasive plant threatening gardens and property.